Roma at the Juventus Stadium on Sunday night.
The breakthrough took a while to come to fruition with neither side able to capitalise on their chances, but Paulo Dybala showed his quality once more in the latter part of the game with a wonderful finish to claim all three points.
Patrice Evra should have opened the scoring on 22 minutes when his volley went a bit wayward and was blocked by the defence before his second attempt also went off target, although Paul Pogba was in the perfect position to guide it in, but it remained goalless.
It took 36 minutes for Roma to get their first real chance of the game with a good cross that eventually dropped to Alessandro Florenzi but he poorly slashed his effort wide.
Evra really should have got the first goal of the match just before the 70 minute mark when a brilliant team move ended with his shot being fired towards goal but Szczesny managed to make a great save and block it at his near post.
Once again, though, Dybala proved to be the star man for the Bianconeri with a quality finish 15 minutes from the end as he took hold of a Pogba through ball and slotted it into the back of the net from a fairly tight angle.
Edin Dzeko had the ball in the back of the net for Roma a few minutes later but the referee disallowed the goal due to a previous foul.
As a result, Massimiliano Allegri’s men claimed victory and have cut the gap between them and top-of-the-table Napoli to just two points, while Roma are moving further away from the title race as they now sit in fifth place, six points behind fourth.
